Books & Literary Life
Literary criticism, author interviews, and book culture from within and beyond Harvard.
Being Undocumented in America
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s writing aims to challenge assumptions.
Amartya Sen, a Memoir
The book covers the first thirty years of the Nobel-prize winning economist’s life.
by Sugata Bose
Re-remembering Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her unusually personal book on the holiday.
Namwali Serpell
The professor of English is also a novelist and a critic.
Off the shelf: Recent books with Harvard connections
Tax follies, Thomas Sowell, Donald Hall, and more
A Surfing Author’s Children’s Book
In the swim with Bonnie Tsui
Under Review: Tony Saich on Chinese Communism at 100
The first century of the Chinese Communist Party—and what impends
Open Book: the case for commitment
Pete Davis expands on his Commencement address.
Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”
The founder, editor, and publisher of The Bay State Banner profiled
Andrew Knoll, “A Brief History of Earth,” reviewed by Jonathan Shaw
Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words